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Avedisian, Scott

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Republican

Name

Scott Avedisian

Address

Warwick, Rhode Island , United States

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Born

00, 1965 (59 years)

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Ben

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Apr 01, 2022 12:19pm

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Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian was born in Warwick and educated in the public schools of Warwick and Washington, DC. He was graduated from Providence College, attended graduate classes at the University of Rhode Island, and is a graduate of Leadership Rhode Island.

Avedisian was first elected, with 58 percent of the vote, in a five-way race in a special election in February 2000. He was re-elected with nearly 70 percent of the vote that November. In 2002, he was elected to his third term with close to 80 percent of the vote. Prior to his election as the 15th Mayor of the City of Warwick, Avedisian served five terms as a member of the Warwick City Council.

A liberal Republican, Avedisian has championed human services reform and environmental protection during his tenure as Mayor of the state’s second largest city. Under his administration, more than 160 acres of open space has been acquired or protected. Warwick has posted the highest bond ratings in the state, three surpluses in a row, and has been named the 20th safest community in the nation. The Police Department has been nationally re-accredited, the city’s two senior centers were the first in the state to receive national accreditation and the Sewer Authority has received recognition from both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.

Mayor Avedisian has a long history of public service. Beginning in his high school days, Avedisian was a page to the late United States Senator John Chafee, a legislative aide for the Rhode Island Senate, a workshop leader for In-Site Rhode Island, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Republican Party, and Deputy Campaign Manager for Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Almond.

In 1995, Avedisian was tapped by Almond to join his State House staff where he served for more than four years. He left his position as Deputy Director of Constituent Affairs, Community Relations, and Municipal Affairs to become the Administrator of Management Services for the Rhode Island Department of Human Services. In this role he worked on health care reform, reform of the state’s welfare system, and planning for universal access to health coverage.

Avedisian has been a member of the Board of Directors of St. Mary’s Home for Children since 1990, is a member of the Board of Incorporators of Kent County Memorial Hospital, Board of America’s Promise Rhode Island, Judge on the Ecclesiastical Court for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, Trustee of the East Providence Boys and Girls Clubs, Trustee of Ocean State Charities Trust, Executive Board of the RI League of Cities and Towns, state’s Information Management Board, Workforce Investment Board, Heritage Harbor’s Education Committee, Board of Advisors of Friends Way, and Main Street Rhode Island.

He previously served as President of the Gaspee Days Committee and has been a member of the Board of the following groups: Urban League of Rhode Island, Westbay Community Action, Pawtuxet Village Association, and Elmwood Community Center. He served two terms as the Vice Chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Party and has been elected to the last five Republican National Conventions. He also has been a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, the Housing Appeals Board, State Internship Commission, and State Criminal Justice Steering Committee.

Avedisian has been named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International and was chosen to lead a US delegation to the Asia-Pacific Conference of Young Leaders in The Philippines in 1996. In 1997, he was chosen by the British government to be part of their European Union Series in Milan, Brussels, and London. In 1999 he led the American Council of Young Political Leaders delegation to Brazil.

Mayor Avedisian is the youngest person ever elected as Mayor and was the youngest person ever elected to the Warwick City Council.

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